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Ban on John Green’s ‘Looking for Alaska’ Sparks Anger
A Tennessee school district has banned John Green’s award-winning novel Looking for Alaska (Dutton, 2005) from the school curriculum. “Our director of schools reviewed it and decided it probably...
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News Bites: Freebies for Star Wars Reads Day!
Save the Date Star Wars: National Star Wars Reads Day is October 6. The event is an initiative of Lucasfilm and its publishing partners, Abrams, Chronicle Books, Dark Horse, Del Rey, DK, Scholastic,...
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Fans Fete Kinney, Green at DC’s National Book Fest
More than 200,000 book lovers streamed onto the National Mall in Washington, DC, this weekend to attend the 12th annual National Book Festival, where children and YA authors from Jeff Kinney to John...
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KidLitCon 2012: The Changing Relationship Between Reader and Writer
Alyssa Sheinmel, Adele Griffin, and other young adult authors came together September 29 at the sixth annual KidLitCon in New York City to discuss social media, the obligations authors have to their...
View ArticlePhotos: John and Hank Green: An Evening of Awesome
Author John Green, brother Hank Green, and special guests the Mountain Goats celebrated the anniversary of The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton, 2012) with an evening at Carnegie Hall.
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‘Nerdfighters’ Sell Out Carnegie Hall to See John and Hank Green Plus Special...
Photo credit: Andrea Fischman. New York City’s famed Carnegie Hall has hosted thousands of legendary performers since it opened in 1891, from the New York Philharmonic to jazz greats Duke Ellington and...
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Pictures of the Week: John Green Fans Outside Carnegie Hall for an Evening of...
Please send your pictures of the week to sdiaz@mediasourceinc.com. Fans Sasha Zacharia, Elazar Nudell and Max Schnaper outside of Carnegie Hall holding their loot from John and Hank Green’s An Evening...
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John Green to ‘Hangout’ with Obama
John Green at Carnegie Hall for “An Evening of Awesome” on January 15. On Thursday, February 14 at 4:50 p.m. EST, popular young adult author John Green will participate in a Google+ “fireside” Hangout...
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John Green Tackles Copyright Via YouTube
Copyright law is complex enough—throw in an instance of international remixing by young nerdfighters, and you have a real mess. But in the hands of author John Green, it’s the basis for a pretty cool...
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Page to Screen: Upcoming Kids’ Books Set for Film Adaptations
The search for the next big film franchise usually begins with a beloved book or series, if the 85th Academy Awards is any indication. If you watched the ceremony on February 26, you might have noticed...
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Kinney, Glasser Win Children’s Choice Book Awards
Jeff Kinney “Wimpy Kid” author/illustrator Jeff Kinney and “Fancy Nancy” illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser scored the top prizes last night at the sixth annual Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards...
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McCall Smith, Green Win Audie Awards
The winners of the Audie Awards, the audiobook industry’s equivalent of the Oscars, were announced at the 18th Annual Audies Gala held at The New York Historical Society in New York City on May 30,...
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Page to Screen: From YA Bestsellers to Big-Screen Blockbusters
While the jury is still out on the big screen adaptation of Cassandra Clare’s City of Bones, reviewers are raving about the surprise indie hit The Spectacular Now, based on Tim Tharp’s young adult...
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John Green Says ‘Looking for Alaska’ Challenged by Colorado Parents
A group of Colorado parents are challenging the use of John Green’s award-winning young adult novel Looking for Alaska (Dutton, 2005) in 9th grade classrooms, the author wrote on his Tumblr-based blog...
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Rebecca Stead Is First US Author to Win ‘Guardian’ Kid Lit Prize
Photo by Joanne Dugan Newbery-winning author Rebecca Stead’s Liar & Spy (Random, 2012) has won this year’s Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, a literary award that annually recognizes one...
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Rowell, Yang Are L.A. Times Book Award Finalists; Green Honored as an Innovator
The finalists for the 34th annual L.A. Times Book Prizes were announced Wednesday, February 19. Among the 50 books that made the short list, five acclaimed titles for young people were selected,...
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School Librarians: Ask Students to Vote to Get ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ Cast...
To promote the June 6 film release of the #1 bestselling New York Times YA title The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (Dutton, 2012), the film’s cast—Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff, and the...
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Page to Screen: Kid & YA Lit Flicks to Look Forward to After ‘The Fault in...
This has been a banner year for movies adapted from children’s and young adult books. With the success of Divergent and The Book Thief, Hollywood continues to tap kid’s books, from classic fairy tales...
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YA Authors who Give Back, From John Green to Ellen Hopkins
Left to right: Ventana Sierra chief executive Kelley Foutz with residentAlyssa Rowley, author Ellen Hopkins, who is Foutz’s mother, and resident Pamela Rhine.Photo by David Calvert for SLJ. Judy Blume...
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Break Out Your Hankies: ‘The Fault in Our Stars’| Film Review
Gus and Hazel are two teens who meet in a cancer support group. In her opening voice-over, the heroine Hazel Grace Lancaster—the ever dependable Shailene Woodley—promises that her story isn’t going to...
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